On 10-Mar-07, at 23:40 , Daniel Jackson wrote:
It is possible it is a down-sized product, not an error.
Didn't Canada have a 4 litre size for many years? When did they
change to 3.78 L?
Dan
I guess the best solution will be to write and ask them if their
label is correct or a typo.
There were periods when Canadian paint manufacturers were selling
hard metric sizes. But the advent of free trade between Canada and
the US brought sent many products in both directions across the border.
In the case of paint, US manufacturers didn't have to create a metric
sized
product for Canada, especially when Canada's market is just 10% the size
of the US market. All they had to do was to put Canadian compliant
labels
on their standard U.S. gallon cans. As you can imagine we also have
small
946 mL cans of paint too.
Over time, Canadian paint manufacturers switched to 3.78 L primarily so
that they could manufacture paint for the US market.
----- Original Message ----
From: Stephen Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 7:42:15 PM
Subject: [USMA:38122] Label Typo
Today, in Toronto, I purchased a can of US made Benjamin Moore paint.
It is a standard sized , 1 U.S. gallon can of paint, although the
label
is designed for the Canadian market, as the wording is bilingual
English and French, and the volume is listed solely in litres.
There is an obvious typographical error on the label, in that it
says the volume is 3.67 L, instead of the more proper 3.78 L.
My guess is that rather than being a miscalculation, the label
designer, or whomever actually input the label design, had
their fingers on the wrong keys and instead of hitting the 78
they mistakenly hit 67.
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